Champions of unsung and underrated cinema Essays & Notes From the Back Row podcast by Veronica, Jenna @agreeablecar, Carlo @carlogocarlo & Dan @yckmd_
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NEW- NEW- Guest contributor Zoe Rogan reckons with the failures of After The Hunt, a film that confuses its apologia with nuance. Read all about Hollywood's MeToo backlash: back-row.com/home/2025/11/19…
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NEW- @mubi’s The History of Sound draws a clear parallel between love and the power of music. Even after the partnership is severed, love does not disappear – like a song, it repeats and reverberates inside of you, long after the record has stopped. Read: back-row.com/home/2025/11/17…
NEW- @mubi’s The History of Sound draws a clear parallel between love and the power of music. Even after the partnership is severed, love does not disappear – like a song, it repeats and reverberates inside of you, long after the record has stopped. Read: back-row.com/home/2025/11/17…
NEW- Veronica takes a look through Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter (2001), Therapy For a Vampire (2014) & Near Dark (1987) to see what overlap and distinctions she can find among these types of vampires. Read: back-row.com/home/2025/7/29/…
Jenna & Veronica talk about all things spy movies – from various international bootleg Bonds to the romance of Black Bag to the conundrum of why there aren’t more female spy flicks. Listen: back-row.com/home/2025/5/30/…
NEW- Another notorious film covered for our I Watched It So You Don't Have To! Now talking Nicolas Roeg's Bad Timing, a film about “obsessive love,” that goes much further – more than ‘obsession’, it's deep, dark manipulation and turmoil. Read: back-row.com/home/2025/4/24/…
Jessica Palud's Being Maria investigates this boundary between truth and art by turning the spotlight on the life of French actor Maria Schneider. Read: back-row.com/home/2025/3/20/…
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My h-o-t-t-o-g-o hot takes of 2024, a month late as always. Including many foriegn and woman directed films, and a rant about all the bad faith criticism of Megalopolis. Enjoy
Jenna’s top ten features a whole lot of foreign releases and female directed films – including those about the ancient past, dystopian and utopian futures, satanic temptations and howling good times. Read: back-row.com/home/2025/1/9/j…
Jenna’s top ten features a whole lot of foreign releases and female directed films – including those about the ancient past, dystopian and utopian futures, satanic temptations and howling good times. Read: back-row.com/home/2025/1/9/j…
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NEW- Veronica’s top twelve new-to-her watches include dopplegangers, sandworms, traveling through the abyss and Channing Tatum being a creep. Read: back-row.com/home/2025/1/22/…
NEW- Veronica’s top twelve new-to-her watches include dopplegangers, sandworms, traveling through the abyss and Channing Tatum being a creep. Read: back-row.com/home/2025/1/22/…
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I expanded my thoughts into an article for @BackRowCineBlog: back-row.com/home/2025/1/17/…
NEW- With the death of David Lynch, Jenna reflects on how she loved his brand of joy and sense of humor – the likes of which radiated through everything he did, including his most upsetting scenes. Read: back-row.com/home/2025/1/17/…
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I’ve always loved David Lynch’s brand of humor & joy, that radiated through everything he did including his most upsetting scenes. Leaning into those unsettling contradictions, those giant question marks in the sky — the more ridiculous, the more terrifying they were.
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Best new to me watches of December:
The Big Racket (1976)
Under Fire (1983)
Saturday Night (2024)
Nickel Boys (2024)
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Veronica and I are back from the dead, talking about The Substance on Back Row! Listen as we discuss its merits, its flaws, our deepest bodily insecurities and our skincare regimes.
NEW- Jenna and Veronica defy the haters and sign up for a weekly dose of The Substance (2024) – listen as they pick apart the strengths and weaknesses of the movie and themselves. Listen: buff.ly/3Z7w9e0
NEW- Jenna and Veronica defy the haters and sign up for a weekly dose of The Substance (2024) – listen as they pick apart the strengths and weaknesses of the movie and themselves. Listen: buff.ly/3Z7w9e0